Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum reopens

After months of major conservation works, the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum reopened its doors to the public yesterday. These works reviewed and redesigned the environmental management of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and also included new visitor facilities. Tours of the underground prehistoric cemetery will still be held every hour. There will be a total of eight tours a day. Thanks to new technology, those visitors who do not manage to book a ticket for the regular tour will still have the opportunity to explore this prehistoric site through a new immersive exhibit installed in the redesigned interpretation centre. Seventy tickets for the audiovisual show will be available daily. The tickets are available through the same website. The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, an underground, prehistoric cemetery used from around 4000BC to 2500BC, is one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in the world. It has been recognised by Unesco as a site that “bears unique testimony to a civilisation which has disappeared”. The prehistoric site consists of a series of rock-cut chambers set on three levels. Carved in the living rock, some of the chambers of the Hypogeum are very similar to contemporarily...